Loom reed and method and apparatus for its manufacture



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. LOOM REED AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ITS MANUFACTURE Patented July 16, 1935 l UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE LOOM REED AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ITS MANUFACTURE Arno Hornig, Pawtucket, It. I.

Application November 22, 1933, Serial No. 699,207

' 5 claims. (c1. 139-192) My invention relates to improvements in loom I have accordingly devised an apparatus which reeds and an improved method of and an appawhen the reed is held in a vertical position will ratus for their manufacture. apply the solder to each side of the spring with- A loom reed is preferably made up of a pluout causing any melting of the pitch bars. rality of parallel fiat wires or dents held by bars Further features of my invention relates to the at spaced distances from each other. The ends improved structural details of the improved appaof the dents have hitherto been mounted in two ratus I preferably employ for this purpose, which, entirely diierent types of b'ars. They have either primarily adapted fOr applying SOldel t0 e reed been mounted in socalled pitch bars, such as are bar may be employed if desired for applying shown in Patent No. 623,196, issued to Byron )solder along lines on both sides of other objects. 10 Wood on April 18, 1899, which comprise substan- These and such other objects of my invention tially semi-spherical wooden bars laid on each as may hereinafter appear will loeA best underside of the dent ends reinforced inside by metal stood from a description 0f my improved reed strips and having cord means wound around and implOVed eppelainS- them in spiral formation in between each dent In the drawings, Fig. 1 is a disassembled side 15 and with the wooden bars, metal strips if emelevation of a reed after the pitch bars have ployed and cord means covered over with a pitch been attached but prior tov the attaching of the covering to flexibly join the ends of said dents usual end cap members, springs and reinforcing together at spaced distances, or the ends of the Spring Strips and the Soldering 0f the Springe t0 2li dents have been rigidly secured together by me= the dent ends and showing the IOWeI Spring in 2o tallic means such as is shown in Patent No, the relative position it assumes in the completed 1,662,591, issued March 13,1928 to Harry Titmas. reed- A difliculty with the pitch bars alone has been Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a reed constructed that in due course of time the pitch and cord in aeerdanee With my invention.

M means become worn and the pitch bars tend Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view thereof taken 25 to break up, or not hold the dents the desired along the line 3--3 0f Fig. 2- predetermined amounts apart. A disadvantagev Fig. 4 is an end view of the improved appaof the rigid metallic means rigidly securing said, ratus I preferably employ for simultaneously apdents together has been that said means does Dlying SOldeI t0 eaeh Side 0f lEhe Spiral Springs 9@ not permit of any flexibility of the dents. Em.- t0 Secure 'Chem t0 the dent endS Without melting 30 ploying my invention, however, I am able tocomthe Diteh bers. bine the advantages and largely eliminate the Iig. 5 is a front elevation of the apparatus disadvantages of cach of these former types. shown in Fig. 4. a By providing my rigid attaching means inside In the drawings, wherein like characters of so of the usual pitch bar means I achieve a. 1arge reference indicate like parts throughout, l0 gen- 35 degree of flexibility in the dents by permitting erally indicates a reed constructed in accordance the dent ends to be mounted so that they may With my inVentiOIl. AS ShOWn in. Fig. 2, Said reed freely move laterally in the pitch bars or the pori0 has a plurality 0f Speeed fidi? WiIeS 01 dents i5 tions thereof between the springs may bend and vertically mounted in spaced side by side rela= at the same time I strengthen the former types tionship and longitudinal pitch bars i 2 flexibly 40 of pitch bar reeds by adding a rigid spacing supjoining Opposite ends 0f Seid dents i'gether Prefport inside the pitch bars thereof and I am enerebiy et Points SPaeed from the ends i4 0f Seid abled thereby to provide a reed which will stand dents. While the pitch bars l2 maybe Constructed up much longer than any pitch bar reed hitherto in any 0f the Hedel manners, Snell eS ShOWn in produced and which will have the usual advan- Patent No. 623,196 heretofore referred to, the pitch 45 tages of a pitch bar reed. In order to solder a bars preferably include the preferably substanspiral spring to a pitch bar reed immediately tially heini-cylindrical Wooden strips I6 having inside of the pitch bars without melting the the flat inner sides I8 adapted to abut the dents pitch bars,'I have devised the novel method and preferably at points equi-distantly spaced from apparatus shown and described herein for so the ends thereof and arcuate outer sides 20. In 60 doing. I have found in practice that this is an my preferred embodiment, the outer sides of the extremely difficult thing to do, namely, to apply wooden strips I6 are preferably provided with the the solder evenly to each side of the spring to longitudinal grooves 22 therein adapted to rerigidly secure it to the dents without causing ceive the reinforcing metal strips 24 Which'extend the heat of soldering to melt the pitch bars and longitudinally of said grooves substantially to the 55 `of the dents together at points spaced from the ends thereof, comprising wooden strips having at inner sides abutting opposite portions of said dent ends at points equidistantly spaced from the ends thereof and arcuate outer sides having longitudinal grooves therein, reinforcing metal strips extending longitudinally in said grooves, cord means spirally wound around said strips having winds thereof vextending between the dents, a pitch covering for said strips and cord means and a paper covering over said pitch bars, rigid end members having cylindrical caps at each end thereof enclosing the ends of said pitch bars including said wooden and metal strips, spiral spring means having winds thereof interposed between adjacent dents inside of said pitch bars, metal strips extending longitudinally within the outer segmental portions of said spiral spring means and over said end members, and solder means joining said metal strips and spiral spring means to each other and to said dents and end members on each side thereof inside of said nexible pitch bars whereby the flexibility of said dents is increased.

3. A loom reed comprising spaced dents, longitudinal pitch bars fiexibly joining opposite ends of the dents together, comprising wooden strips having flat inner sides abutting opposite portions of said dent ends and arcuate outer'sides, cord means spirally Wound around said strips having winds thereof extending between the dents, a

:pitch covering for said strips and cord means,

spiral spring means having Winds thereof interposed between adjacent dents inside of said pitch bars, and solder means joining said spiral spring means to said dents on each side thereof inside of said iiexible pitch bars whereby the flexibility of said dents is increased.

4. The steps in the method of making loom reeds which comprise, attaching pitch bars to the dent ends to iiexibly join them together, interposing winds of a spiral spring between said dents inside of said pitch bars, and applying solder to each side of said springs to rigidly secure them to said dents to provide rigid fulcrums therefor without melting said pitch bars.

5. A loom reed comprising spaced dents, longitudinally extending means exibly joining opposite ends of the dents together, comprising wooden strips having fiat inner sides abutting opposite portions of said dent ends and arcuate outer sides, cord means spirally wound around said strips having winds thereof extending between the dents, spiral spring means having winds thereof interposed between adjacent dents inside of said strips, and solder means joining said spiral spring means to said dents on each side thereof inside of said wooden strips, whereby the flexibility of said dents is increased.

ARNO HORNIG. 

